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Foyboats and boatmen have been traditionally associated with the rivers of Britain’s north east coast for at least three hundred years. Throughout the age of sail their main task, undertaken…
Rose of Portloe is a Cornish crabber. The term “crabber” covered all boats which fished with pots for crabs, lobsters and crayfish. They were small, well-built craft, with good load…
The origins of this image can be traced back to 1811 when the 6th Duke of Bedford commissioned the building of a fishing lodge and romantic gardens on one of…
In the years following the Second World War, as rising living standards and increased leisure time led to an expansion in leisure boating, Fairey Marine was an important player. Employing…
“Perhaps the Solomon Islands are more celebrated for their canoes than for anything else, and, if so, I think, with reason”, wrote W. Coote in his work The Western Pacific.…
Daisy Belle began life racing and fishing around Falmouth before retiring to more leisurely use. Built by William Brabyn at his Calenick Creek, Truro Yard around 1885, her name was…
This canoe comes from the Gilbert Islands, now called Kiribati, a nation of coral atolls scattered over the Micronesian area of the Pacific Ocean. It features an extra log called…
Articles in this series about the Flying Twenty and its more famous development, the Flying Fifteen, have described racing sailing boats developed in the last half century in response to…
Curraghs are traditional Irish boats, unique to that part of the world. Built around strong wooden frames, their hulls are formed with waterproof canvas or leather. The curragh men, their…
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